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  • n  a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places

  • The seed of our destruction will blossom in the desert, the alexin of our cure grows by a mountain rock, and our lives are haunted by a Georgia slattern, because a London cutpurse .
  • Heifetz' fiddle stirs in this embryonic cutpurse the will to resume his own studies on the violin.
  • Always together, eternally apart, these two ironic superheroes have a mediating companion, the impish cutpurse Phillipe (Matthew Broderick again).

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